Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"Zulu Nation, brothers that's creation; / Minds get flooded, ejaculation -- / Right on the two inch tape."Work: Buggin' Out [from Low End Theory]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24735
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24735"His belief in Mahomet, in the Koran, and in the sufficiency of the Koran, came to him probably in spontaneous rushes of emotion; there may have been little vestiges of argument floating here and there, but they did not justify the strength of the emotion, still less did they create it, and they ...Work: On the Emotion of Convictionhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25121
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25121"The only blessing is that, after hours of listening to Perel's anecdotes, your mind gets soupy and Perel herself, while reading, begins to sound so jaded and cold that you start to wonder if she's slightly perverted, which, at least momentarily, makes the listening more interesting."Work: A Celebrity Couples Therapist Turns to Adultery [from The New York Times]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25103
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25103"But, because political campaigns occasionally can be wonderful bathyspheres to your soul’s dark abyss, we are learning that Moore’s is plenty deep and plenty dark."Work: Do You Think President* Trump Could Find Iran on a Map? [from Esquire]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25098
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25098""Twin Peaks: The Return" works much differently, in that we occasionally get scenes or even entire hours that draw us far away from the straight, well-defined narrative path ... until we're floating around, dangerously unmoored, in David Lynch's subconscious."Work: 'Twin Peaks' Season 3, Episode 15: The Body Electric [from The New York Times]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25089
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25089"The attention is on the stretch; the posture of the mind is uneasy; and the spirits being diverted from their natural course, are not governed in their movements by the same laws, at least not to the same degree, as when they flow in their usual channel."Work: A Treatise of Human Naturehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/12134
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/12134"The vividness of the first conception diffuses itself along the relations, and is convey'd, as by so many pipes or canals, to every idea that has any communication with the primary one."Work: A Treatise of Human Naturehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25069
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25069"And yes, mortal knells / in sleepless hours, hollow knocks of empty / boats against a dock but still the mind / is a meadow, the heart an ocean even though / it burns."Work: How to be a Surrealist [from Bender]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25064
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25064"As on the land while here the Ocean gains, / In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; / Thus in the soul while memory prevails, / The solid pow'r of understanding fails; / Where beams of warm imagination play, / The memory's soft figures melt away."Work: An Essay on Criticismhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/10710
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/10710"It is with narrow-soul'd People as with narrow-neck'd Bottles: The less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out."Work: Thoughts on Various Subjectshttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25046
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25046